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Joel Todd

Patent Scientist,
Tokyo

Joel Todd

Joel joined EIP as Patent Scientist with a background in Physics. He gained a First Class MPhys degree from the University of Oxford, with a focus on condensed matter and atmospheric physics. For his master’s project, Joel wrote a computer program displaying the time evolution of neighbouring atomic spins in ferromagnets. This allowed for the visualisation of the spin dynamics of Dirac magnons on a ferromagnetic honeycomb lattice, which have dispersion linear in wavevector, in analogy to the dispersion of electrons in graphene.

Joel is currently based in Tokyo, Japan, where alongside his day-to-day drafting and prosecution work he engages directly with our Japanese clients. Joel taught himself Japanese to fluency in just three years, before moving to Japan.

Published articles

  • June 2024
    EE Times, Why U.S. Companies Should Continue to Apply for AI Patents in Europe (link)
  • May 2024
    EIP News Flashes, Updated EPO Guidelines on AI – why US companies should encourage close collaboration between their US and European attorneys on AI patent applications (link)

Education

  • 2022 — 2023
    Postgraduate Certificate in Intellectual Property Law (Distinction), Queen Mary University of London
  • 2022
    Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Level N1
  • 2016 — 2020
    MPhys Physics, University of Oxford

Career history

  • 2021 — present
    Patent Scientist, EIP
  • 2020 — 2021
    STEM Programme Leader, Oxbridge Access Programme, Leading Education

Languages spoken

  • English (native)
  • Japanese (fluent)

Specialisms

Digital

  • AI
  • Applied physics
  • Image and signal processing
  • Medical imaging
  • Software

HealthTech

  • Medical imaging

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